- No prosecution of rail fare row man
- Family devastated by boy's death
- Devolution papers release vetoed
- Rail signal staff to strike again
- BBC explains Salmond cancellation
- Snow set to settle over 'wide area'
- Knife sentences longer in Scotland
- Reoffending services data 'lacking'
- Budget cash for colleges, housing
- Pedestrian dies after car accident
- Navy rescuers have busiest UK base
- Home recycling 'saves £20m a year'
- Police name bus fall death woman
- Sports scheme to help youngsters
- Probe into university blaze begins
- Offshore energy 'needs efficiency'
- Murray vows to win grand slam title
- Alcohol plan 'complies with EU law'
- Secrecy over Megrahi 'orchestrated'
- UK banks owner launches review
International
Argentina in UN protest at warship in Falklands
ARGENTINA’S President Cristina Fernandez last night vowed to complain formally to the UN Security Council about Britain sending one of its most modern warships to the Falkland Islands.
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Putin aims to cut road rage and win votes in Moscow
In AN effort to court the populist vote ahead of the country’s presidential election in March, Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin has pledged to cut traffic privileges for officials, who routinely by-pass Moscow’s notorious traffic jams by ignoring the basic rules of the road and even driving into oncoming lanes.
Fistfuls of dollars: How Iran is reacting to nuclear crisis
One measure of the anxiety coursing through Iranian society in the light of American and European sanctions over its nuclear programme can be seen on Manouchehri Street, a winding Tehran lane where men gather to buy and sell US dollars.
Autobahn frozen to halt by sauerkraut
Piles of sauerkraut tumbled out of a lorry on a busy German autobahn and quickly froze to the road surface, causing a massive traffic jam near Frankfurt during yesterday morning’s rush hour, police said.
Ahmadinejad faces a grilling by Tehran MPs
Iran’s parliament has summoned president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for questioning over a long list of accusations, including that he mismanaged the economy.
Barack Obama signals U-turn on funding as Republicans rake in money
President Barack Obama has signalled a major rethink over the use of so-called “Super PAC” money in his re-election bid.
US judges rule against same-sex marriage ban
AN AMERICAN appeal court has found California’s gay marriage ban unconstitutional in a case that is likely to lead to a showdown on the issue in the US Supreme Court.
Soldiers foil suicide bomb attack
A SUSPECTED suicide bomber disguised in a uniform was killed yesterday when his car bomb exploded under fire from soldiers outside a base in Kaduna, Nigeria, the army said.
Hungarian leader defends new constitution
Hungary’s prime minister defended his nation’s new constitution yesterday and questioned the motives of those who are criticising it.
Rebels release 29 kidnapped Chinese
Sudanese rebels released 29 Chinese workers yesterday, ten days after kidnapping them in the oil-producing state of South Kordofan, where the army has been fighting insurgents, Sudan’s foreign ministry said.
Serbian prisoners break out of cells
Serbian authorities stepped up security at a prison yesterday after an inmate jailed for his role in the assassination of a prime minister tried to break out with another convict.
Argentina marks Belgrano deaths
THE Argentine government has named the upcoming football season in honour of a ship sunk by British torpedoes in the Falklands War.
Immigrants found dead at roadside
Police in north-west Greece have found the bodies of three men believed to be Afghan illegal immigrants.
Monastery latest target of Jewish extremists
A CAMPAIGN of hate crimes believed to be carried out by extremist Jewish settlers and their supporters escalated yesterday, as a holy monastery in Jerusalem was defaced with graffiti calling for death to Christians.
Anti–gay bill back before parliament
A UGANDAN MP who first introduced a bill that carried the death penalty for some homosexual acts reintroduced it to the country’s parliament yesterday.
Vienna promises malaria jag pay–out
Vienna’s mayor has promised compensation for anyone injected with the parasite that causes malaria, after two former foster home children claimed to have been given such shots in the 1960s.
Trouble in Maldives as eco icon president is forced out
THE president of the Maldives resigned yesterday in what one aide described as a coup d’etat.
Dead ringer singer held
A TRICKSTER who pretended he was a deceased traditional singer, returned from being imprisoned by a witchdoctor in a cave filled by zombies, has been arrested in South Africa.
Strike police occupy state legislature in NE Brazil
Around 300 striking police officers and their relatives have barricaded themselves into a state legislature building in north-eastern Brazil.
Another Libya-style mission may prove impossible for UK military warn MPs
Britain could struggle to mount another military operation on the scale of the intervention in Libya, MPs warned yesterday.
5 commentsNazi attack sparks furore in French parliament
A FRENCH socialist MP yesterday accused the interior minister of flirting with Nazism.
Pilot tests positive for crystal meth
AN INDONESIAN pilot was arrested after testing positive for crystal meth (methamphetamine).
Analysis: Legacy of bad old days resurfaces in the east
Times are tough for “new Europe”. The energy and optimism that the post-communist states once brought to lethargic western Europe has pretty much evaporated, as economies struggle and governments totter.
Why happy Dutch are getting their skates on
Sports events across Europe have fallen victim to the continent’s deep freeze – but the Dutch are ecstatic, hoping the famous “Eleven Cities” speed-skating race can be staged for the first time in 15 years.
Greece to cut 15,000 civil service jobs as bail-out deadline looms
Greece’s coalition government last night caved in to demands to cut civil service jobs, announcing 15,000 positions would go this year, amid mounting international pressure to agree on austerity measures needed to secure major new debt agreements.
Merkel backs Sarkozy in re-election bid
German chancellor Angela Merkel gave her backing to French president Nicolas Sarkozy in his re-election fight yesterday, saying the two right-wingers were from the same “political family”.
Desperate search for survivors after factory collapses in Pakistan
RESCUE workers struggled to reach dozens of people trapped in the rubble of a factory in Lahore, Pakistan, that collapsed yesterday, killing at least nine people.
First female president a possibility for Mexico
MEXICO’S ruling National Action Party has chosen a female presidential candidate for the first time, betting that charismatic former congresswoman Josefina Vazquez Mota will help it erode the lead in the polls held by its powerful rival.
Egyptian voters could go to polls in April as leaders speed up transition
Egypt’s military leadership has called for a swift move to a presidential election, in a sign that the army’s planned transition to civilian rule is being accelerated.
Digging deep to win hole prize
MORE than 1,000 people gathered on the outskirts of Tokyo this weekend to dig for victory in the Japan All-National Hole Digging Competition, and claim the coveted Golden Shovel.
Norwegian massacre: Honour me then let me go, Anders Behring Breivik tells Norwegian court
SMIRKING as he was led into court, the right-wing extremist who massacred 77 people in Norway’s worst peacetime killing said yesterday that he deserves a medal of honour for what he did and demanded to be set free.
Fatah and Hamas leaders shake on an accord for Palestinian elections
Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas has taken a major step toward reconciliation with the Islamic militant group Hamas, agreeing to head an interim unity government that would prepare for elections in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Analysis: Past peaceful revolutions have lessons for anti-Putin protesters
NON-violent revolutions do not always remain non-violent – but peaceful movements for regime change often do succeed. They have toppled illegitimate rulers, as with the post-Soviet “colour revolutions” in Georgia and Ukraine, and ended apartheid in South Africa, for example.
Scotland’s Super Bowl hero Lawrence Tynes kicks his way into history for NY Giants
WITH nerves of steel and a sure right foot, he kicked his team towards victory in the world’s most watched sporting spectacle and sent his career into the stratosphere.
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Romanian PM joins leaders felled by austerity measures
Romanian prime minister Emil Boc resigned yesterday, joining the list of European leaders felled by public fury at tough spending cuts and IMF-backed austerity measures that saw weeks of protests in Bucharest.
China defends controversial decision to veto UN resolution
CHINESE government spokesmen and state media have tried to explain exactly why Beijing used its veto to block the Arab-sponsored UN Security Council resolution calling for Bashar al-Assad to relinquish power in Syria.
2 commentsSyria blog: ‘We have no-one but God – everyone has abandoned us’
SUCH is the violence directed against the central Syrian city of Homs by the regime, some opposition members have started calling it “the capital of the Syrian revolution”.
D’oh! Simpsons on the blacklist
An IRANIAN government agency has banned dolls of The Simpsons cartoon characters, who join Barbie and others on a toy blacklist.
Indian court threatens web giants over content
Internet giants Google and Facebook have removed content from some Indian domain websites following a court directive warning them of a crackdown “like China” if they did not take steps to protect religious sensibilities.
Obama’s relative hurt in car crash
US PRESIDENT Barack Obama’s Kenyan step-grandmother suffered bruises and shock after a car she was travelling in rolled over, police said.
Fence aims to keep immigrants out
Greece is to begin building a six-mile fence on its border with Turkey to deter illegal immigrants. Thousands cross from Turkey into Greece each year, often travelling on to other parts of Europe.
Hunt for man after girl, 10, stabbed
Police in Sweden are searching for a man who stabbed a ten-year-old girl in the neck outside a school in Gothenburg,
‘Give Gillard a break’ call as pressure on premier grows
Australia’s minority government partners have urged the ruling Labour Party to stop undermining the prime minister’s leadership.
Snow village in the middle of the desert
Saudi developers are planning a “snow village” inside a new shopping mall in Riyadh.
Rebels set to free Chinese hostages
Sudanese rebels have said they will soon release 29 Chinese workers held in the border state of South Kordofan, where the army has been fighting insurgents for months.
Syria: Pressure mounts on doomed regime
THE British and American governments yesterday raised the stakes with Bashir al-Assad’s regime in Syria by reducing their diplomatic ties with it, as government troops closed in on rebels in the central city of Homs.
Analysis: A resurgent Taleban may turn to politics rather than conflict
A SECRET Nato report leaked last week showing the strength of confidence among the Afghan Taleban has raised concerns from Kabul to Washington that the militant group might over-run the country again when foreign combat forces finally leave.
Reporter makes claim of torture in Iran
A GERMAN reporter claims he was beaten by guards during five months of imprisonment in Iran and that he heard constant, “horrible cries” of other inmates being tortured.
Three Tibetans set themselves on fire as protest
Three Tibetans in south-western China have set themselves ablaze in protest against Chinese rule, Radio Free Asia reported, the latest in a series of self- immolations over the past year.
National Geographic pair die in air crash
Award-winning American cinematographer Mike deGruy and Australian television writer-producer Andrew Wight have died in a helicopter crash in Australia, their employer National Geographic said yesterday.
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